MLB...No more divisions?

[Aries]

Did you guys see this?


http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Best-realignment-possibility-Astros-and-Rangers?urn

ESPN's Buster Olney stirred things up a bit over the weekend, reporting that Major League Baseball is considering a realignment that would leave each league with an even 15 teams and completely wipe out the divisions. The top five teams would make the postseason and, with an odd number of teams in each league, interleague play would be a constant on the schedule. The Houston Astros would be the one team calling the figurative moving vans as it's presumed they'd be plucked from the six-team NL Central and placed into the now-skimpy AL West (which currently only hosts four teams).

 

[Darrell]

Dislike. Leave Baseball alone, Bud Selig and company. You bastards. :fing27

 

[rback33]

It's baseball... who cares.... LOL

 

[NuckingFuts]

Did you guys see this?


http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/bi...ealignment-possibility-Astros-and-Rangers?urn

Are you for it?

 

[Aries]

Are you for it?

No definitely not! I like things the way they are. You?

 

[NuckingFuts]

No definitely not! I like things the way they are. You?

So do I. Except I think they should get rid of the Yankees all together.

 

[Aries]

So do I. Except I think they should get rid of the Yankees all together.

:24:You're such a wiseass!

 

[rback33]

So do I. Except I think they should get rid of the Yankees all together.

That's a bandwagon I will jump on. Move them to KC so we don't have our farm team any more.

 

[Aries]

That's a bandwagon I will jump on. Move them to KC so we don't have our farm team any more.

Never happen in a million years.

 

[NuckingFuts]

They are just the best team money can and did buy.

 

[Aries]

They are just the best team money can and did buy.

Here we go again.

You're all just jealous.

 

[NuckingFuts]

Here we go again.

You're all just jealous.

Just jealous that they have you and we don't.

 

[rback33]

They are just the best team money can and did buy.

This is one of my issues with baseball. It's hard to believe that generally conservative person will say this, but the lack of profit sharing as they have in football means that almost all small markets will struggle most of the time because they can't bank roll the Yankees type teams. I hate the Twins because they tend to buck this trend and keep profit sharing out of baseball. The Royals are a glorified farm team, grooming players for the other teams... Johnny Damon for one....

 

[NuckingFuts]

This is one of my issues with baseball. It's hard to believe that generally conservative person will say this, but the lack of profit sharing as they have in football means that almost all small markets will struggle most of the time because they can't bank roll the Yankees type teams. I hate the Twins because they tend to buck this trend and keep profit sharing out of baseball. The Royals are a glorified farm team, grooming players for the other teams... Johnny Damon for one....

:clap:clap:clap

 

[Aries]

Just jealous that they have you and we don't.

 

[NuckingFuts]

Feeling better now.


Sorry I derailed your thread.




Still hate the Yankees though

 

[rback33]

Seriously... bring in profit sharing and salary caps and level the playing field and I will probably give a shit about baseball. Until then it's something that happens in the football offseason.

 

[NuckingFuts]

Seriously... bring in profit sharing and salary caps and level the playing field and I will probably give a shit about baseball. Until then it's something that happens in the football offseason.

Yes but a lot of great football players also played baseball.

 

[Aries]

Some football players are paid an insane salary as well.

 

[Panacea]

Oops I thought it was nm